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By plugging tens of billions of phone numbers into WhatsApp’s contact discovery tool, researchers found “the most extensive exposure of phone numbers” ever—along with profile photos and more.
OpenAI's Fidji Simo Plans to Make ChatGPT Way More Useful—and Have You Pay For It
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Valar Atomics Says It’s the First Nuclear Startup to Achieve Criticality
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Young Mormons Built an App to Help Men Quit Gooning
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Gemini 3 Is Here—and Google Says It Will Make Search Smarter
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The ‘Great Meme Reset’ Is Coming
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This Home Robot Clears Tables and Loads the Dishwasher All by Itself
Sunday Robotics has a new way to train robots to do common household tasks. The startup plans to put its fully autonomous robots in homes next year.
How Donald Trump Lost Control of the Epstein Spin Cycle
Donald Trump has spent years benefiting from the QAnon's Jeffrey Epstein obsession. That’s all changing.
The Best Deals From REI’s 2025 Holiday Sale
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Use Google Gemini and ChatGPT to Organize Your Life With Scheduled Actions
The AI’s latest trick is following the schedule you set for it.
All of My Employees Are AI Agents, and So Are My Executives
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The First Radio Signal From Comet 3I/Atlas Ends the Debate About Its Nature
An observatory detected the first radio signal from the interstellar object 3I/Atlas. Here’s what it means.